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Part VI -- Stemming the Tide of Toxic Chemicals: A Special Focus on Endocrine Disruptors

March 13, 2009

Posted by Linda Greer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy

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bisphenol-a, BPA, endocrinedisruptors, flameretardants, hormonesystems, phthalates, TCC, TCS, toxicchemicalreform

In the last week, I’ve written about the urgent need for federal reform of the toxic chemical regulatory process in the United States. Today, I’ll wrap up my series with a plea for a special focus on endocrine disruptors, a...continued

Part IV -- Stemming the Tide of Toxic Chemicals: What the Obama Administration Must Do Now

March 9, 2009

Posted by Linda Greer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy

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bisphenol-a, BPA, consumerproductsafetycommission, endocrinedisruptors, EPA, FDA, GAO, integratedriskinformationsystem, IRIS, phthalates

In the months after last November’s election, NRDC’s health program developed a list of more than 50 steps that the new administration needed to undertake quickly. Many of these steps address problems in the Environmental Protection Agency’s core chemical decision-making...continued

Part II: Stemming the Tide of Toxic Chemicals -- Why Now?

March 4, 2009

Posted by Linda Greer in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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bisphenol-a, BPA, chemicalpolicyreform, congress, europeanunion, greenchemistry, kidsafechemicalsact, PBDE, perchlorate, phthalates, REACH, toxic, toxicchemicals, whitehouse

As I wrote earlier this week, our national system for regulating toxic chemicals is broken and desperately in need of repair. Luckily, five key developments have set the stage for the best opportunity to make significant gains on chemical policy...continued

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Linda Greer
Director, Health and Environment Program
Washington, D.C.
I direct the Health Program, where I concentrate on the biggest toxic chemical pollutants in...
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